(Transitions) Quality Engineer

Required Skills & Experience

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years of prior relevant experience or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Project Management and advanced communications skills.
• Supplier development experience.
• Six Sigma Certified (Green Belt, Black Belt).
• Experience with AS9145, AS9102, ASQR-01, AS13100, APQP and PPAP.

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a (Transitions) Quality Engineer to join a manufacturing company based in East Hartford. The Transitions Quality Engineer will be responsible for working closely with suppliers to ensure affordable, high-quality parts meet customer satisfaction. The major focus of this role is to provide support to the Global Supply Chain organization relating to improvement of suppliers' Quality as well as providing Quality interface expertise and support to Suppliers and internal peer organizations. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• The TQE supports Supply Chain’s Global Transitions team as a Quality leader for Global Transitions hardware from contract review phase to First Article Inspection approval, PPAP Interim approval with a plan for Full approval, through our TQE Quality assessment and approval of production readiness/Gate C
• TQE works with quality entities and suppliers to identify and proactively mitigate quality risk emphasizing product, AS13100, PPAP, APQP and PWA 79345 requirements. Mitigate risk proactively during using AS9145 tools as PFMEA, PFD, PCP, MSA and KPC Management.
• The main objective of the TQE is to mitigate the risk of quality escapes to our customers through robust contract review verification and preventing hardware nonconformance with the utilization of process control requirements (AS13100 /APQP/PPAP/KPC).
• TQE must be able to support and facilitate risk mitigation in contract review, contract flowdown, subtier management, special/controlled processes, and metallurgical control.
• The TQE is responsible for proactively supporting global transitions project managers with key quality deliverables to meet project timelines (qualification of special processes, ESA, waiver/deviation QNs, eSRIs).